In Defence of Plastics, The Miracle Material

Plastic snowcatchers. Nationaal Archief via Flickr Commons
We have made fun of the stuff ever since Mr. McGuire told Ben in the Graduate "I just want to say one word to you .... just one word...Plastics. There's a great future in plastics."
Certainly at TreeHugger, what with Bisphenol A and phthalates and PVC and vinyl , it has been the personification of evil.
But Susan Freinkel notes in the New York Times that it is not all bad, and in some cases can be quite wonderful.
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